dtSearch Corp.

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dtSearch Corp.
Type	Private company
Founded	1991
Headquarters	Maryland, USA
Key people	David Thede, President
Industry	Software
Website	www.dtsearch.com

dtSearch Corp. is a software company which specializes in text retrieval software. It was founded in 1991, and is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. Its current range of software includes products for Enterprise Desktop search, Intranet/Internet spidering and search, and search engines for developers (SDK) to integrate into other software applications.

1 History
2 Products
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

dtSearch Corp was founded by David Thede; the company started research and development in text retrieval in 1988 and incorporated in Virginia in 1991 as D T Software. Marketing of dtSearch 1.0 a DOS Text Retrieval software product began in the first quarter of 1991. Initially it was distributed as Association of Shareware Professionals-approved shareware.

The product was featured in an article entitled "Text Retrieval Software" in an early edition of PC Magazine^[1] as a shareware alternative to the commercial products reviewed; these included ISYS , ZyIndex, Strix, AskSAM, ideaList, Assassin PC, Folio Views and Lotus SmartText.

In 2007 the company was listed in the EContent 100 list, a list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry.^[2]

[edit] Products

The current (v 7.5) product range is Unicode-based and has an index that can handle over 1 TB of data per index.

dtSearch Desktop with spider - Windows client Desktop search software
dtSearch Network with spider - as dtSearch Desktop but licensed for Network use
dtSearch Web with spider - browser based search-only client for Intranet/Internet usage based on Microsoft IIS
dtSearch Engine with spider - SDK with C++, .NET, COM, Java, Delphi APIs (32-bit and 64-bit versions)
dtSearch Engine for Linux - SDK with C++ and Java APIs
dtSearch Publish - a search front-end for CD\DVD publishing